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Beer
Waggle Dance Review
Nov 12th
Tried a bit of Waggle Dance recently. I was Drawn in by the promise of a honey flavour. It looked tha part anyway with the honey color. At 5.0% its pretty much run of the mill in terms of alcohol level which was immediately disappointing, I would normally look for more of a punch from [...]
Best Beer: Mac’s Gold: All Malt Lager
Nov 12th
This week I gave Marc’s Gold a run. It looked promising from the start, all malt no less! I said I would give it a go despite not being the full bang at only 4.0% and wasent exactly cheap at €2.20 for the bottle. The Bottle was funky, looked like Mac had made it in [...]
Best Beer? – Budvar: the Original Budweiser
Oct 27th
Here on The “Best Beer?” Column I will be trying out all the Beers I can find and reporting back my findings. So Budvar, The original Budweiser was first brewed in 1785 in what is now called the Czech republic. After many court cases between the American Budweiser and the Czech Budweiser all is now [...]
Jazz Weekend Review: Stick ‘em up punk!
Oct 26th
Firstly, what a weekend! Only in Cork for the Guinness Jazz Festival is there a drunken mob covering all demographics out filling the bar stools with asses in every pub. And there was a bit of jazz too, not that most people remember, or even care about jazz in the first place! I found my [...]
Prost!!! My German experience in Chicago
Apr 29th
My colleague ‘s trip to Germany reminded me of a German bar I visited whilst in Chicago during the summer of ’08. http://www.prostchicago.com/ It was here I met a very close, old, personal friend of mine whom I hadn’t seen since the day before. I had spent much of my time with him and his friends in New [...]
The Brauhaus, Hannover, Germany
Apr 28th
Was over in Germany with work for the past few days. We found ourselves frequenting a spot called the brauhaus. It was a mirco brewery which served only it’s own beers. We got the beer in 2 litre bottles, which were the job! The beer was great and the menu consisted almost exclusively of meat [...]
Top Hangover Cures
Apr 27th
1 Fry up; hard to beat, but finding someone with the energy and enthusiasm to mastermind the construction of the ultimate cure may be difficult after a heavy night!!!!!! 2 Dive into the ocean; takes a bit of balls especially in the winter, will seriously sort you out though. if you are weary of your [...]
Fosters: One of the Cornerstones of a Cheap Drinking Career!
Apr 7th
What can I say about Fosters only: “God bless you, sweet cheap nectar” Drinking fosters is a pastime of many a student as well as all other levels of society from the world beaten worker to the delightfully vocal homeless man. In a way it is the great leveler, those who are cheap at heart [...]